The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...novelists of Latin America, are the witnesses, historians, and interpreters of our great Latin American reality. ("Baroque" 106-107) In the magical realism that emerged from far south of Mississippi's geographical...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...of which—along with other notable musicians—brought new attention in national and international press to New Orleans’ cultural revival as a sign of larger material, social, and economic recovery. The same...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...is aptly captured by/in two recent films. Winter's Bone, set in the rural Ozarks, vividly portrays the psychosocial costs of geographical isolation, lack of economic and educational opportunity, and sense...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...first capital became the largest of Georgia’s removal posts and headquarters for Cherokee removal from Georgia. By 1837 the name had changed to Fort Wool. Matthew Brady, Portrait of General...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...autobiographical. I mean, I stayed, I didn't quit, but yeah a lot of that is autobiographical. JAMES: Lace ends up dropping out of West Virginia University to return to the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
Essay No Southerner by origin, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "As I am an ardent Californian," she has Alice B. Toklas say in The Autobiography, "and as she...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...we consider efforts to recruit Latin American migrant labor into the plants, first in the 1970s—a little-known but significant moment of transnational labor in central Mississippi—and again in the mid-1990s,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Mountain Home, Baxter County, Arkansas, Keller-Butcher Collection, University of Central Arkansas Archives. Harington’s romanticized portrayal in this semi*]}*-autobiographical work captures the back-to-the-land subset relevant to this research; however it omits...
Remnants of Flannery
...on the Instagram feeds of some friends of mine who visited Andalusia and the Central State mental hospital recently, and the parallel, vicarious visit I had in my head as...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...US empire-building, where extensive commercial interests, especially in agriculture, created semi-colonial regimes in Mexico and Central America. Importantly, however, Confederate migration does not mark the beginning of US or imperial...